A FOWL STORY.
A Pahia'tiia resident claims to be receivr ing a return of £9 ;per month in eggs : from his poultry farm, writes our Wairarupa- correspondent. Askbd: if he was making..:.a profit, when one considered" the price;'or wheat,"he said, "Yes," and that :ho had bought wheat early in the season. 'A' sceptic, who has 'also gone into■ poultry, aud with disastrous results owing to various:reasons, considers-.'that- the - Pahiatiia resident has told an extraordinary story/ ,To make > £9 & month, with eggs at Is. a dozen, he has. to recoivo toll from his .hens at. the rate of-72 eggs a day,'including Sundays, which should really, bo days of,'rest for the; barnyard.' The resident'must have over-200 fowls, in order that some of them may have' a . little leisure, instead of eternally .sitting on nests.' "If he has.not 200 hens," concluded the sceptic,-triumphantly, "ho. is svreatin'c< them, and should :be ■ brought up under ,the Act'..',' ~. '.' , ...., . ... -
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 2
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152A FOWL STORY. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 56, 29 November 1907, Page 2
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